This Creature Went Extinct 136,000 Years Ago – But Then Evolution Repeated Itself

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A few years before the Bermuda cahow was rediscovered, a different creature hit the headlines. When the dinosaurs were wiped out millions of years ago, the coelacanth fish was believed to be among the casualties. And no one had any reason to believe that they weren’t extinct, but that mindset quickly changed in 1938.

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